MIT professor Irwin Jacobs turns down faculty position in Applied Electrophysics offered by Henry Booker (his former undergraduate professor at Cornell), but two days later reconsiders and begins teaching Fall quarter.

13 professors in inaugural faculty in Department of Applied Electrophysics

Booker assembles a group of ionospheric physicists including Jules Fejer, Hannes Alfven, Ian Axford, Kenneth Bowles and Peter Banks who, together, accounted for 90% of "most influential" papers on the ionosphere (Source: Wesleyan University)